Hans Günter Michelsen

Hans Günter Michelsen (born September 21, 1920 in Hamburg ; † November 27, 1994 in Riederau (Dießen am Ammersee) ) was a German playwright .

Live and act

Hans Günter Michelsen's literary theme has always been the imprisonment of modern man in the past . His pieces seem naturalistic and remind (remotely) of the drama of Gerhart Hauptmann . But influences from Samuel Beckett are also reflected in them. His pieces often deal with the inner well-being of soldiers from the Second World War who are overtaken by their past in the post-war period .

Michelsen, who was himself a Soviet prisoner of war until 1949 , headed the press office of the Berlin Schiller Theater from 1960 to 1962 before making his debut as an author with the play "Stienz", written in 1955, which was included in the anthology "Vorzeichen" published in 1962 by Hans Magnus Enzensberger . was published by Suhrkamp Verlag and was premiered a little later by the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt . Contact to the publisher was already in place via Karlheinz Braun , who was then head of the Suhrkamp Theater Verlag division . Michelsen's following pieces were also published by Suhrkamp and mostly had their premieres in Frankfurt. In the 1970s, Michelsen mainly worked as a translator and actor. From 1973 to 1976 he was employed at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven before he reappeared as a playwright himself.

His son Jakob Arjouni (1964–2013) also became a writer, he mainly worked in the field of novels.

Works

Stienz (1963)
Lappschießen (1964)
Three Acts (1965)
Helmet (1965)
His Life (1977)
Everyday Life (1978)

Awards

1963: Award of the Lower Saxony Art Prize, Hanover

1963: Promotion Prize of the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize, Berlin

1965: Gerhart Hauptmann Prize , Dramatist Prize of the Free Volksbühne Berlin

1967: Literature Prize of the City of Bremen

Web links

supporting documents

^ Tobias Amslinger: publishing authorship. Enzensberger and Suhrkamp . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2018, p. 214. ISBN 978-3-8353-3308-6 .
↑ Arjouni, Jacob. In: Lexicon of German crime fiction authors. Retrieved December 10, 2013 .

personal data
SURNAME	Michelsen, Hans Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German playwright
DATE OF BIRTH	September 21, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	November 27, 1994
Place of death	Riederau (Dießen am Ammersee)

[1] Tobias Amslinger: publishing authorship. Enzensberger and Suhrkamp . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2018, p. 214. ISBN 978-3-8353-3308-6 .

[2] Arjouni, Jacob. In: Lexicon of German crime fiction authors. Retrieved December 10, 2013 .